There is a place in southern Indiana where the candy-making techniques from the 1890s are still alive and well behind a pane of glass. Sweets are pulled, cut, and cooled using methods that have barely changed in more than a hundred years, and you can stand a few feet away and watch it all happen.
Add a working soda fountain, a small museum packed with old paraphernalia, and a family that clearly loves what they do, and you have a stop worth planning your whole day around. It was even named the number one candy store in the country.
Keep reading to learn where this old-fashioned treasure sits, what makes its demonstrations so entertaining, and why generations of families keep coming back for more.
Where Sweet History Lives on Spring Street
Right in the heart of downtown Jeffersonville, Indiana, you will find Schimpff’s Confectionery at 347 Spring St, Jeffersonville, IN 47130. The shop has been part of this community since 1891, making it one of the oldest continuously operating candy businesses of its kind…